2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Community Psychology in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Community Psychology is the 529th most popular major in the country with 624 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 43 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in community psychology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in community psychology.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree community psychology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Community Psychology in the Southwest Region

1

Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Weatherford, Oklahoma, and it awarded 14 masters’s community psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full SWOSU Community Psychology Report

2

Prescott College
Prescott, Arizona

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Prescott College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in Prescott, Arizona, and it awarded 1 masters’s community psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Community Psychology at Prescott College

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Community Psychology

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.